India's order against Bitchat defies logic-and it's time to draw a clear line on software bans

At 23, July 28 -- 16 on the night of 23 July, a nodal officer at the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) issued a takedown order to GitHub, giving the company just three hours to comply. Whi... Read More

AI in medicine: model makers need a Marketing 101 lesson-focus on what customer need must be met

New Delhi, July 21 -- A surprising number of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in the radiology space focus on 'segmentation'-the process of tracing the outline of an organ or tumour on a scan. ... Read More

The World Cup's controversial tech-assisted referee decisions presage a rise in techno-cynicism

New Delhi, July 14 -- Fourteen minutes into the Fifa World Cup group-stage football match between Qatar and Switzerland, the referee awarded Switzerland a penalty kick. Two Swiss players looked margin... Read More

Javier Milei's proposal of an AI-run company with no humans involved is deeply flawed. Here's why

New Delhi, July 7 -- In an article in the Financial Times last month, Argentine President Javier Milei announced that his government was planning to create a new kind of company-a non-human corporatio... Read More

Genetic engineering can go wrong: programmable biology without rules could end up as a nightmare

New Delhi, June 30 -- Today, for about $29, you can buy a petunia that glows in the dark. The Firefly Petunia, sold by synthetic biology company Light Bio, was created using genes from luminous mushro... Read More

Lost in a maze of passwords? Passkeys offer a convenient and secure path to website access

New Delhi, June 16 -- Last week, I tried to cancel an e-mandate and found myself in a world of pain. As I recall, it was super easy to set up the standing instruction-all I had to do was provide my cr... Read More

Lawyers who embrace AI have much to gain-but they must use these tools on their own terms

New Delhi, June 9 -- All of a sudden, legal AI solutions are all the rage. Harvey, a leading legal AI company, is now valued at $11 billion, while Legora, its nearest rival, just raised $550 million i... Read More

Agentic AI can run amok. To pin legal liability, we need records of who deployed which AI agents

New Delhi, June 2 -- Nine years ago, in an article in this column, I tried to imagine what would happen if autonomous algorithms were let loose in a digital market with instructions to maximize profit... Read More

Literary invasion: what does it mean for writers if AI written stuff is deemed the best by the most discerning?

New Delhi, May 26 -- Last week, the internet was abuzz with allegations that this year's winner of the Commonwealth Foundation prize for Caribbean regional short fiction had been written using artific... Read More

Don't pick the wrong privacy battle: Aadhaar held in a Google Wallet shouldn't make anyone nervous

New Delhi, May 19 -- Last month, when Google announced that Indian residents can now store their Aadhaar verifiable credentials in their Google Wallet, the reaction was shrill. Since then, much ink ha... Read More

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